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List of commands you use most often

List of commands you use most often suppressing sudo Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
64 ifconfig
35 firefox
33 ls
29 ping
28 yaourt
27 history
25 cat
21 vim
19 /etc/rc.d/wireless
17 init
```
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history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

JamieKitson · 2012-12-31 13:45:03 5
List of commands you use most often *suppressing sudo*
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

JamieKitson · 2012-12-31 13:43:00 6

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